Historical information

New Chum Gully is one of the earliest and most important alluvial and quartz mining gully of Bendigo goldfields. It was also one of the more lucrative reefs and became the site of extensive quartz reef mining with some of the richest mines of the field, led by George Lansell and Daniel Barnet Lazarus. These included the nearby mine sites of New Chum and Victoria, New Chum United, Old Chum, Lansells 222 and Lazarus as well as operating extensive battery buildings and pyrites works that were all located in New Chum Gully between Booth, Thistle Streets and Maple Street. (City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Report, 27 Pallett Street, Golden Square)

Physical description

New Chum and Victoria Lease plan. Written on outside of plan: ' Western Portion, New Chum and Victoria Lease, 2 chains to an inch'.
Plan forms part of the Margaret Roberts Collection of mining records.